Comments on: Fighting the Restavèk Curse in Haiti

By: Mira Chaikin

Mira Chaikin — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 10:16:13 +0000

Caribbean-American author Lili Dauphin has written a series of books, starting with Crying Mountain Crazy Hurricane, that chronicles the life of Tilou, a young Haitian girl before and during a hurricane that strikes her impoverished village. Many of the news stories after the earthquake are identical to the images Lili depicts in this book. The prequel to Crying Mountain is I Will Fly Again which tells the story of Tilou’s time as a restavek. Lili’s website is http://www.islandlili.com

By: Becky

Becky — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 17:23:52 +0000

It appears that some of the US media has started reporting on restavek children. I’ve seen several articles from various news outlets.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/232865

http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/01/29/haiti.restavek.sende.sencil/index.html?iref=allsearch

@Amy, @Melinda, Since Compassion has mentioned the restavek children tend to be too old to enter Compassion’s child sponsorship program, it appears the restavek children are sponsored through other monies raised by Compassion. Perhaps Compassion could specify which fund (POC?) they use to support restavek children through supporting churches taking care of them?

By: amy

amy — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 17:57:16 +0000

what is Compassion doing to help these children? It would be helpful to say and also offer opportunities to support those efforts directly.

By: Melinda Loomis

Melinda Loomis — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 06:43:45 +0000

Compassion, please set up a separate category so that people may support Restavek children.

By: Bob

Bob — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 03:31:01 +0000

Thanks to this blog post I noticed THIS article from the AP today. 225,000 enslaved children... just in Haiti.

By: Federica

Federica — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:10:44 +0000

I went in Haiti one year.
Restave’k are Jesus crucified again and again, believe me.
In two hours fly to Miami, so near to the exclusive Labadee sand…
They can be killed, burned, beated, violated just for fun.
We have to pray, we have to HELP Compassion.

By: Erika

Erika — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 04:32:27 +0000

wow, so sad the stories,but Praise God for the Christian schools and we pray Gods Grace and blessings that you will be able to place other restavek children in homes!!!

By: Dana

Dana — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 07:07:58 +0000

How heartbreaking! I’m so glad Compassion is there for children like Michelet and Acnise. I hope they both have found sponsors who can love them and offer encouragement and support. I wish there was a way for more children like Michelet and Acnise to be reached through Compassion’s work.

By: Amy

Amy — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 22:01:42 +0000

Is it possible to make a donation specifically to help these children and Klebert – to Compassion, or the school, or the church supporting the school?

By: Stacey

Stacey — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 12:44:55 +0000

Such a sad situation. I pray that one day, each of these restavek children will find hope in our Lord Jesus Christ. I pray that He will increase Compassion’s ministry to these children.